Sentences with phrase «of descending air»

This positive buoyancy of the descending air acts as a brake on circulation.

My impression is that it is the area of the cloud free subtropical high pressure cells of descending air that is a strong variable factor explaining the change in the temperature of the in - feed waters that become the westerly currents that occupy the tropical latitudes.

Its location next to a subtropical high - pressure belt of descending air produces stable atmospheric conditions over most of its surface area, and the climate generally is dry.

I also explained why the extra warmth at the surface is provided by compression of descending air converting potential energy (PE) to kinetic energy (KE) and not from downward radiation from GHGs in the air warming the ground beneath.

Whereas the CO2 has reduced the rate of uplift in the ascending column (which warms the surface) CO2 at lower levels reduces the rate of descent in the descending column which reduces surface temperature because less warmth is then being generated via compression of descending air.

Not exact matches

In 2011, dozens of demonstrators descended on Mnuchin's $ 26.5 million home in the wealthy Bel Air neighborhood to protest OneWest's eviction tactics, according to the Los Angeles Times.

When a gentile convert stood in the baptistery on Easter's eve and, before descending naked into the waters, turned to the West to renounce the devil and the devil's ministers, he was rejecting, and in fact reviling, the gods in bondage to whom he had languished all his life; and when he turned to the East to confess Christ, he was entrusting himself to the invincible hero who had plundered hell of its captives, overthrown death, subdued the powers of the air, and been raised the Lord of history.

«We who are left alive until the Lord comes shall not forestall those who have died; because at the word of command, at the sound of the archangel's voice and God's trumpet - call, the Lord himself will descend from heaven; first the Christian dead will rise, then we who are left alive shall join them, caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.»

Behold, the heavens grow black with clouds; the sun has veiled himself; the moon, pale and forsaken, hangs in the middle air; the hail descends; the seven thunders utter loud their voices; the lightnings send their vivid gleams of sulphurous flames abroad; and the great city of the nations falls to rise no more forever and forever!

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we that are alive, that are left, shall be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we be forever with the Lord.

By the use of a spring the tension is increased as the air is exhausted and the spring is compressed and decreased as the spring resumes its normal shape, which by the use of weights the tension is increased slightly by the momentum acquired by the descending weight as the air chamber is distended... This variation relieves the constant pull on the breast that would take place if the action was direct.

One problem is that when divers descend more than about 130 feet, customary levels of nitrogen (78 percent of air on the surface) have a narcotic effect.

Listen for clips from some of these lectures on the Scientific American Science Talk podcast, including Fovell's explanation as to why the notion of a freezing air mass that descends on New York City in the movie The Day After Tomorrow is goofy.

As the descending body penetrated deeper, air resistance probably caused it to explode in an airburst with a strong flow of heated gas that was carried downward by its tremendous momentum.

As the fire is burning and smoke descends toward the floor, cool air rushes in through the bottom of the open doorway.

When the smoke layer descends to almost floor level, a mass of air violently rushes in, igniting the entire flammable mixture.

His study «Analysis of Aerosols From World Trade Center Attack» indicated that the contaminated air sometimes descended to ground level over a mile from Ground Zero, far outside the safety zones established by the EPA.

These storms result from the vertical circulation of water in the top layers, leaving large areas where air descends and becomes dry like the Sahara desert, and other areas where water rises to form the thunderstorms.

The crisp air of fall is beginning to descend on New York City which means it's finally chilly enough for me to start trying on Anthropologie sweaters comfortably!

The descending chrome leg that helps form the lamp assembly T - shape also lends a sense of framing to the corner air inlets.

The manifold is connected directly to the air intake and the only suction created is that caused by the descending piston with no venturi to increase it, and the engine power is controlled by varying the amount of fuel that is injected into the cylinder by a fuel injection system.

From the front the radiator grille kidneys broaden as they descend towards the road, to emphasize the car's low center of gravity, while the gold - colored kidney surround adds an air of exclusivity to the front end.

The ceiling fans were not running, which meant the short trip from leaving your air conditioned room, descending 2 flights of stairs in stifling heat and humidity, to the lobby / breakfast / carpark, your clothes were soaked with sweat and needed showering again.

We can stroll down the Cuesta de Gomérez to the Plaza Nueva and beyond, to the bars and tavernas of the Lower Albayzin, the old Moorish Quarter, or we can descend via the Cuesta de los Chinos to perhaps the city's prettiest square, the Paseo de los Tristes, with its open - air terraces.

According to The Washington Post, the sandstorm is actually a haboob, «caused by the downdrafts of a collapsing thunderstorm complex generated by the Southwest monsoon... When the downdrafts — made up of rapidly descending air — smashed down on the desert ground, they stirred up large amounts of sand and dust subsequently carried forth by the storm outflow.»

When the downdrafts - made up of rapidly descending air - smashed down on the desert ground, they stirred up large amounts of sand and dust, subsequently carried forth by the storm outflow.

The troupe of around 50 male dancers descend onto the stage with extended arms and shaking hands up in the air while chanting their fast - paced, «chak!»

And as a special reward for making this trek, you can take a relaxing soak in the air panas (natural hot spring) in Toya Bungkah.For an interesting round trip, climb Mount Batur from Toya Bungkah, follow the rim around to the western side, then go south through the area of the most recent volcanic activity, descend to the east and traverse through the lava field to Pura Jati.

For an exciting view of the Yarra Valley, take to the dawn skies in a hot - air balloon before descending into a vineyard to enjoy a breakfast of sparkling wine and gourmet hamper.

Here, the cool air rolls down from the high neighboring mountains and descends its oxygenated, pure air upon all of Ubud and its luck visitors and inhabitants.

And as you descend upon the shorelines of Whitehaven Beach, you'll be greeted by salty air, white sand and pristine water.

Loot treasure chests for game - changing power - ups, master the art of catching arrows out of the air, or descend on your foes and stomp them into submission.

1 PHILIPPE PARRENO (TATE MODERN, LONDON; CURATED BY ANDREA LISSONI WITH VASSILIS OIKONOMOPOULOS) Parreno has turned the Turbine Hall into a mesmerizing machine producing light, sound, cinematic effects, and choreography: Inflated fish float in the air, huge planes reminiscent of Russian Constructivism ascend and descend inscrutably in the semidarkness, and a flickering apparatus seems to send out signals that trigger reactions throughout the entire museum.

The world's most esteemed artists, dealers, curators and of course collectors have descended on the city to soak in the warm, moist air and the effortlessly chic Miami now - ness.

This is a result of cooling in tropical regions where air descends, relative to warming in tropical ascent regions, which strengthens low - level atmospheric stability.

The descending air masses of the Polar Cells is responsible for low precipitation at the polls.

Cold air at the top of ascending columns is forced to one side by warmer air continuing to flow up from beneath but it is blocked by the warmer stratospheric air above and so flows laterally and downward to the top of descending columns, following the undulating slope of the tropopause.

Recall that the air flowing across laterally and downward to the top of the descending column did not warm up adiabatically due to its contact with the stratosphere above.

The rotation spreads the temperature differentials latitudinally forming discrete climate zones with favoured regions of either ascending or descending air with jet streams threaded between them.

Heat (not latent heat) is removed prior to condensation by conversion of kinetic energy to potential energy which then provokes condensation and when the phase change occurs the release of latent heat causes the air parcel to rise a little further with additional conversion of KE to PE until it reaches the correct lapse rate temperature for its height and then it stops rising and begins to descend.

On air - water contact: Take dry air such as the air descending in the desert regions north and south of the equator and contact it with water.

At times, some tentacles of it will slip southward and bring cold air outbreaks into the U.S., but this year, we're seeing a huge chunk of it, most of it descending into the U.S.»

Descending air currents of High pressure systems are also the reason we have deserts and why the world's records for hottest temperatures on each continent are not at the equator but about 32 to 36 ° North as seen in the above diagram.

Now consider the fate of the air that descends from on high.

However, there is also the expansion of the Hadley Cells where water vapor from tropical ocean evaporation rises, water in the form of rain falls out as the air cools with increased altitude, then dry air descends at poleward edge of the cells in the dry subtropics.

Heated by condensation on the rise, the descending dry air would adiabatically heat up at 9.8 deg C per 1000 meters and so that it would rapidly become warmer than surrounding atmosphere having a standard lapse rate of 6.5 deg C per 1000 meters.

The rising arrows represent columns of air, but I believe the descending arrows represent, by in large, a more diffuse long - term circulation.

The speakers rarely descend into jargon or pull obscure references out of thin air.

Sting - jets — transient jets of air descending from cloud level — boost wind speeds near the ground and increase the amount of damage caused by storms.

The upshot of the differences in air density that manifest between 400 hPa and 50 hPa is fast displacement of low density air that travels to the top of the atmosphere in a cone that surrounds the very cold dense descending air from the mesosphere.